Christie’s ‘Towards Zero’ (1944) counts down to murder
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This briskly paced and well-drawn character piece is only undone by the unlikely turns of the denouement.
Agatha Christie
Christie’s ‘Towards Zero’ (1944) counts down to murder
Poirot warmly tackles cold case of ‘Five Little Pigs’ (1942)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Character drama and mystery flawlessly come together in Christie’s beautifully written novel.
‘Crooked House’ (1949) a stealthily tragic tale
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): They aren’t criminals or even bad people. But there’s something not right in the titular household in this Christie classic.
‘Death on the Nile’ (1937) a romantic puzzler on river
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This classic ends up a brain-teaser, but for much of its page count it’s a great portrayal of romance gone bad.
Christie makes plotting seem as easy as ‘A.B.C. (Murders)’ (1936)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): For the first time, Poirot encounters a serial killer! And it’s no less compelling than Christie’s traditional puzzles.
‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (1934) a stone-cold classic
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Poirot is in his element like never before or since in this staple of Christie’s oeuvre.
‘Third Girl’ (1966) an old-fashioned take on modern times
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Christie (along with Poirot) reluctantly acknowledges that it’s the Sixties, man, in this suspect-loaded mystery.
Murder follows Marple across pond in ‘Caribbean Mystery’ (1964)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): A rare Agatha Christie yarn that crosses the Atlantic, “A Caribbean Mystery” is otherwise reliably basic.
‘Pale Horse’ (1961) adds supernatural spin to mystery
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Agatha Christie taps into the supernatural to a greater degree than most of her novels, and with good effect.
Christie schools us in ‘Cat Among the Pigeons’ (1959)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): A girls school provides a great setting and characters as a string of murders threatens to put class out of session for good.